… Instead, if the dyslexic difficulties lie in a less powerful attentional spotlight, we expect
them to suffer from the negative effects of a narrow focus of attention as much as the controls (…

… dyslexic populations are studied, namely children and adults, … first time, that dyslexic adults
have global temporal deficits … of attention in a task requiring exogenous orienting of attention…

… have demonstrated that adults with dyslexia are less sensitive than non-dyslexic adults to
a … A neuronal model of attentional spotlight: parietal guiding the temporal. Brain Research …

… The relative delay for the invalid trials is thought to reflect the time required to shift the
attentional spotlight from the invalid cue location to the true target location. Accordingly, the further …

… spatial distribution of visual attention in the sample of children with SRD or dyslexia. Indeed,
… imaging (fMRI) to study visual motion processing in normal and dyslexic male adults. In all …

… We report the performance of a group of adult dyslexics and matched controls in an array-…
This capacity is best seen as a reduction in the number of spotlights into which attention can be …

… Dyslexia can also be acquired in adult life, most commonly … The role of the attentional
spotlight in reading. The top row … the attentional spotlight shifts the focus of attention from one …

… The attention spotlight is not only oriented in a specific … Adults with dyslexia can use
cues to orient and constrain attention but have a smaller and weaker attention spotlight…

… spotlight states that visual attention operates like a spotlight that … adults are better able to
control their attentional spotlight. In … with dyslexia might have a broader attentional spotlight than …

… us to discriminate between dyslexics with poor phonological decoding and dyslexics with …
Our results suggest that visual attention impairments are the core deficit in dyslexics …